Oregon Ducks to open NCAA women's tournament against Seattle

Southern California, Notre Dame, Baylor and Saint Mary's are the No. 1 seeds for the NIT. Nebraska's one quality win this season came against the Wolverines, but MI came right back and smacked the Huskers in the mouth in NY a few weeks ago in the conference tournament. BSU, despite getting a bye, fell in its only conference tournament game, 78-75, to Utah State. View the full bracket here. Other teams in the NIT field that were overlooked by the bigger tournament include Louisville, Oklahoma State, Middle Tennessee and Oregon. The Bulldogs will host Abilene Christian on Monday. The improvement is the largest increase by any team in 2018 NCAA Tournament field and tied for the biggest jump in Division I with fellow Big Ten partner Rutgers. Baylor has the chance to host all the way to the quarterfinals. Nebraska most recently made the NCAA Tournament in 2015.

"We realized that playing and participating and actually putting the effort into doing what we need to do is the best decision", he said.

"I'm sure they did have conversations among themselves in the last however many days", Padgett said when asked about the vote. "Nebraska's had some fine wins in their league".

"The players spent a lot of time at their dorm". UW and OSU were 1-1 with both games being decided by three points or fewer.

Even changing one of Nebraska's close losses to Kansas, Creighton or Ohio State to a win wouldn't appear to do much more than improve the Huskers' NIT seeding. At 3 p.m., tickets will be available for the general public at www.HailState.com/Tickets, or calling the ticket office at 1-888-GO-DAWGS.